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here's cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. >> reporter: to hear the pentagon tell it -- >> sequestration, therefore, if it were allowed to happen, would introduce senseless chaos. >> reporter: the fiscal cliff -- >> sequestration will have a chaotic infect on the force. is akin to armageddon. >> what i worry about is being blindsided by a huge cut because they don't have the strength or the courage or the guts to do what they have to do. >> happy holidays. >> reporter: the cliff would cut $500 billion in defense spending but spread out over the next ten years. would these cuts really be that bad? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: analyst ben freeman says the pentagon can survive on a smaller budget. >> sequestration happens, it will drop a little bit. it's certainly not catastrophic or doomsday or any of other sort of high penitentiaryb hyperbole. >> reporter: perhaps the navy has to buy less advanced fighter jets. or the pentagon would have to cut the number of soldiers and marines back to the levels before 9/11. >> sequestration would risk hollowing out our force. >> reporter: pentagon o
here's cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. >> reporter: to hear the pentagon tell it -- >> sequestration, therefore, if it were allowed to happen, would introduce senseless chaos. >> reporter: the fiscal cliff -- >> sequestration will have a chaotic infect on the force. is akin to armageddon. >> what i worry about is being blindsided by a huge cut because they don't have the strength or the courage or the guts to do what they have to do. >> happy...
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a gloom and doom scenario that the pentagon says. but is it? chris lawrence has a closer look. >> reporter: to hear the pentagon tell it -- >> sequestration, therefore if it were allowed to happen, will introduce senseless chaos. >> the fiscal cliff -- >> sequestration will have a chaotic effect on the force. >> reporter: is akin to armaggedon. >> i worry about being blindsided by a huge cut because they don't have the strength or courage or guts to do what they have to do. >> happy holidays. >> reporter: the cliff would cut $500 billion in defense spending, but spread out over the next ten years. would these cuts really be that bad? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: analyst ben freeman argues the pentagon can survive on a smaller budget. >> it will drop a little bit. but not catastrophic, doomsday, any sort of hyperbole. >> reporter: perhaps the navy would have to buy less expensive, less advanced fighter jets instead of the new f-35. or the pentagon would have to cut the number of soldiers and marines back to the numbers before 9/11. >> sequest
a gloom and doom scenario that the pentagon says. but is it? chris lawrence has a closer look. >> reporter: to hear the pentagon tell it -- >> sequestration, therefore if it were allowed to happen, will introduce senseless chaos. >> the fiscal cliff -- >> sequestration will have a chaotic effect on the force. >> reporter: is akin to armaggedon. >> i worry about being blindsided by a huge cut because they don't have the strength or courage or guts to do what...
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chris lawrence joins us from the pentagon. what can you tell us? >> you never want to say any one life is worth any more than any other soldier or marine's. but based on the ranks of the people involved, this was a serious blow to the leadership of this brigade that's been working in eastern afghanistan to try to secure that area as time starts to wind down on the of a dwan war. this suicide bomber was able to kill some very senior leadership, including army major tom kennedy, air force major walter gray, and the command sergeant major tom griffin, the senior enlisted man. we're also told by sours that a colonel who was in charge of about a 4,000 man brigade was also wounded in that attack. >> you know, you mentioned the timing and i think that this is so disturbing. this comes as the u.s. is drawing down forces, getting ready for that anticipated 2014 handover of power and the big question is afghanistan ready for that. and this really brings that into question. on top of it this morning, three u.s. troops killed in afghanistan after the wednesday
chris lawrence joins us from the pentagon. what can you tell us? >> you never want to say any one life is worth any more than any other soldier or marine's. but based on the ranks of the people involved, this was a serious blow to the leadership of this brigade that's been working in eastern afghanistan to try to secure that area as time starts to wind down on the of a dwan war. this suicide bomber was able to kill some very senior leadership, including army major tom kennedy, air force...
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an advantage, the pentagon believes. civilian aircraft, could you develop a civilian aircraft that could fly you that fast? if this works theoretically. it doesn't get to the point of how much time you'll spend on the tarmac before your plane takes off. >> military officials are saying this technology would have been useful to them as early as 1988, righbefore september 11th in the hn had the for osama bin laden as well. it says it's promising for evading and wrought routrunning fire. >> it's an interesting question. look at the practical applications for the pentagon. back in '98 they used tomahawk missiles to attack a training camp they believed osama bin laden was hiding at. but by the time they got them ready and sent them to the target, bin laden by all accounts was long gone. this compresses your military decisionmaking time into minutes. you can get to that target before your enemy flees. that's what the pentagon believes the real advantage would be. >> barbara starr, thank you for that sneak peek. very cool techn
an advantage, the pentagon believes. civilian aircraft, could you develop a civilian aircraft that could fly you that fast? if this works theoretically. it doesn't get to the point of how much time you'll spend on the tarmac before your plane takes off. >> military officials are saying this technology would have been useful to them as early as 1988, righbefore september 11th in the hn had the for osama bin laden as well. it says it's promising for evading and wrought routrunning fire....
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that is at the request of the pentagon. the member of seal team six is now retired, wrote the book, "no easy day" the military is worrying it could jeopardize his colleagues and family. they say it was not vetted as required about it pentagon. >>> officials at the sikh temple in wisconsin say their touched by the expressions of first lady michel michelle obama. she met privately with victims and surviving family members of the mass shooting at the temple earlier this month. six members of the temple were killed in that august 5th attack that left four others wounded. >>> it's just about ten minutes after the hour now. you have to listen to this. she must have been one amazing waitress. a couple leaves behind a really, really, really big tip. >> wicked big. >> this was no accident. wait until you hear how much. we'll tell you next. dern world.. would define you as an innovator. to hold more than one patent of this caliber... would define you as a true leader. to hold over 80,000... well, that would make you... the creators o
that is at the request of the pentagon. the member of seal team six is now retired, wrote the book, "no easy day" the military is worrying it could jeopardize his colleagues and family. they say it was not vetted as required about it pentagon. >>> officials at the sikh temple in wisconsin say their touched by the expressions of first lady michel michelle obama. she met privately with victims and surviving family members of the mass shooting at the temple earlier this month....
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our pentagon correspondent barbara starr spoke to the filmmakers. >> don't think she's a little young for the hard stuff? >> washington says she's a killer. >> it's a hollywood spy thriller with as much oscar buzz as it has controversy. "zero dark thirty," the story of the hunt for osama bin laden, from the oscar-winning powerhouse team of katherine big ga lo and mark bo, recreates how it all happened from the female cia analyst who finally figured out where he was hiding to the navy s.e.a.l.s who killed him. >> there are two narratives about the location of osama bin laden. >> reporter: the controversy? the obama administration has faced accusations it gave undeserved access to the filmmakers. in real life, everyone involved in the hunt for bin laden remains sworn to secrecy. but the filmmakers say they got firsthand accounts. they just won't say exactly how that happened. >> i think as a reporter you would understand we take prot t protecting our sources and sort of the exact methodology of our sourcing pretty seriously, just in the same way if i asked you how did you source that st
our pentagon correspondent barbara starr spoke to the filmmakers. >> don't think she's a little young for the hard stuff? >> washington says she's a killer. >> it's a hollywood spy thriller with as much oscar buzz as it has controversy. "zero dark thirty," the story of the hunt for osama bin laden, from the oscar-winning powerhouse team of katherine big ga lo and mark bo, recreates how it all happened from the female cia analyst who finally figured out where he was...
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with less than seven weeks to go until election day, our focus this morning turns to the military as pentagon corp spon dent barbara starr reports mitt romney and president obama don't see eye to eye when it comes to funding the armed forces. >> reporter: how many troops and just what weapons are needed to defend the nation. president obama and governor mitt romney each are making a different case. governor romney has said he wants to significantly add to our conventional forces. >> we must have a commitment not just a more ships and aircraft but also more members of our armed forces. >> reporter: president obama wants a smaller conventional force and $500 billion in pentagon spending cuts over the next ten years. >> and as long as i'm commander in chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. >> reporter: let's start with the romney plan. the candidate says he favors a larger force of naval ships and aircraft but has not said how he would pay for it. romney has also said he wants to add 100,000 troops to the current force of 1.4 million. now, for a look at obama's p
with less than seven weeks to go until election day, our focus this morning turns to the military as pentagon corp spon dent barbara starr reports mitt romney and president obama don't see eye to eye when it comes to funding the armed forces. >> reporter: how many troops and just what weapons are needed to defend the nation. president obama and governor mitt romney each are making a different case. governor romney has said he wants to significantly add to our conventional forces. >>...
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. >>> the pentagon now threatening legal action against the retired navy s.e.a.l. who wrote a book about the raid that killed osama bin laden. the pentagon's top lawyer wrote a letter to the author addressed to mark owen saying that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets. the author said he and another s.e.a.l. finished off bin laden and identified him as leader of al qaeda. it was originally due out on september 11th. >>> listen to this cheating scandal unfolding at harvard. university officials say 125 students are being investigated for collaborating on a take-home final exam for an introduction to congress case. those found guilty could be expelled from the ivy league school for a year and face disciplinary action. let's send it back to john berman. good morning. >> good morning, i'm at patches place, a restaurant here in tampa. we're here because back at the convention hall, the speeches ever done and the balloons have fallen and they are sweeping up. but we have big questions, namely will the poll numbers rise for mitt romney after his convent
. >>> the pentagon now threatening legal action against the retired navy s.e.a.l. who wrote a book about the raid that killed osama bin laden. the pentagon's top lawyer wrote a letter to the author addressed to mark owen saying that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets. the author said he and another s.e.a.l. finished off bin laden and identified him as leader of al qaeda. it was originally due out on september 11th. >>> listen to this cheating scandal...
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so this went to the white house situation room, many officials at the white house, fbi, pentagon, cia, many different agencies. i don't think president obama or vice president biden would have gotten these messages, per se, but certainly the president and vice president were briefed that night and certainly this claim of responsibility, the idea there were armed militants, i'm sure they were notified that night about what was going on. but what the assessment was, what the intelligence was about how this attack came to be, was it preplanned, was there a protest? these are the kind of things that shook out over the coming days. >> one more question for you, we reported back in september that this militant group, in particular, ansar al-sharia was linked to the benghazi attack. we were told the group could be one of multiple organizations responsible. do the e-mails alter in any way what we have learned so far? >> i think we are still trying to assess really what happened. in this group claiming responsibility, then later saying it was not involved, now certainly some members of the gro
so this went to the white house situation room, many officials at the white house, fbi, pentagon, cia, many different agencies. i don't think president obama or vice president biden would have gotten these messages, per se, but certainly the president and vice president were briefed that night and certainly this claim of responsibility, the idea there were armed militants, i'm sure they were notified that night about what was going on. but what the assessment was, what the intelligence was...
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like the pentagon is across the street practically. >> right. in the bad weather. you could tell the chaos, even though they are completely calm, you can tell there's a lot happening and they can't really keep track of where the planes are. >> 12 seconds, they say. >> a federal official blamed basic communication breakdown, sloppy procedures, and said it's a big screw-up for a big airport. athena jones is live in washington, d.c. do they know now outside of just sloppiness what exactly went wrong? >> no. it's unclear. the faa says there appears to have been a miscommunication. it happened just after 2:00 p.m., during a really heavy rain at that moment in time. driving rain. so that meant that air traffic controllers wanted to change the directions that planes were coming in. at first they were departing and landing on runway one from south to north. they wanted to switch that to another runway from north to south. but clearly not everyone got that message. and so the faa is investigating. they have cautioned us, though, away from using kind of -- talking about the
like the pentagon is across the street practically. >> right. in the bad weather. you could tell the chaos, even though they are completely calm, you can tell there's a lot happening and they can't really keep track of where the planes are. >> 12 seconds, they say. >> a federal official blamed basic communication breakdown, sloppy procedures, and said it's a big screw-up for a big airport. athena jones is live in washington, d.c. do they know now outside of just sloppiness...
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they want to actually increase defense spending over a decade $2 trillion more than the pentagon has requested. without saying what they'll spend it on. and they want to make enormous cuts in the rest of the budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor children. as another president once said, "there they go again." >> so margaret, i'm going to ask you one of these questions you love to get. even republicans are saying this was quite a speech. >> nobody can deny it. bill clinton is the 20th politician of the 20th century. >> she even wore blue today. >> he has a wonderful ability to cherry pick packs and create a narrative out of them and retell history in a way that's favorable to him frankly. and also to the story that he's trying to tell. he did this several times. he did this with health care saying that health care has only risen 4% over the last two years, thank god for obama care. the affordable care act largely hasn't taken into effect, mostly because of the economy that 4% increase. they can take it. also there's been massive raises in premiums over the la
they want to actually increase defense spending over a decade $2 trillion more than the pentagon has requested. without saying what they'll spend it on. and they want to make enormous cuts in the rest of the budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor children. as another president once said, "there they go again." >> so margaret, i'm going to ask you one of these questions you love to get. even republicans are saying this was quite a speech. >> nobody...
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here's pentagon correspondent tim lawrence. >> reporter: camouflage can mean the difference between a soldier getting shot and going home. a lot is riding on the next generation to outfit troops. it's only been eight years since the army spent $5 billion on cam mow that critics say didn't fool anyone. soldiers complained to the point army abandoned its one-size fits all universal pattern. >> they were looking for camouflage they could use everywhere. >> correct. and it didn't work anywhere. >> reporter: guy cramer is one of the designers competing to win the army's next multimillion dollar contract. this summer he showed us the science behind every shape, size and shade of these pixels. >> you now have your camouflage. we're trying to trick the brain into seeing things that aren't actually there. >> reporter: digital patterns re-create shapes already found in nature and 3d layering creates depth and shadows where none exist. that's today's design. but developers already have one eye on tomorrow. >> what's coming up down the road and very quickly is the harry potter cloak. >> what is i
here's pentagon correspondent tim lawrence. >> reporter: camouflage can mean the difference between a soldier getting shot and going home. a lot is riding on the next generation to outfit troops. it's only been eight years since the army spent $5 billion on cam mow that critics say didn't fool anyone. soldiers complained to the point army abandoned its one-size fits all universal pattern. >> they were looking for camouflage they could use everywhere. >> correct. and it didn't...